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,. M E M 0 RAN 0 U M e June 26, 1985 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Mike Gleason, City Manager SUBJECT: BUSINESS REGULATION REVISIONS - PHASE 2 Background Three years ago, the Eugene Economic Diversification Program directed staff to begin a review and streamlining of City regulations. Land use procedures were the first to be reviewed. You adopted specific ordinance revisions in October 1983. The result was a 3D-percent reduction in total processing time for land use applications. In February 1984, you adopted guidelines for revisions to Chapter 3 - Business License Regulations. Phase One revisions, which you adopted in April 1985, streamlined business license laws and procedures, and deleted eight business licenses. Phase Two, which was presented to you in May 1985, proposes using uniform business practice (UBP) laws to regulate some types of business activity. We recommended adopting UBP laws for nine types of business ~ activity and repealing seven additional business licenses. As in Phase One, strong emphasis has been placed on not regulating unless it is necessary to protect the public health and saftey. The objective in Phase Two has been to streamline procedures and not necessarily to change specific regulations. The UBP laws simplify the regulation process because they do not require a person to be licensed each year. Only in cases of a violation of the law do the City and the business person come into contact, and that is in Municipal Court. We propose involving the public and the City in as little red tape as possible when it is important to regulate business activity. For this reason, I strongly recommend using UBP laws. With the proposed ordinance, 60 percent of the people who used to apply for business licenses will no longer have to do so. And, most important, for those who continue to be regulated, the procedures are greatly simplified. Concerns From June 10 Public Hearinq A. Private Security Aoency A number of issues were raised on this topic. Of principal concern was the need to continue to regulate both armed and unarmed Detective and Security Agencies. The City shares this concern and thus retained the laws that were in effect before the overhaul of Chapter 3; we wi 11 continue to 1 i cense e agencies. The only major change staff has recommended is to combine the current i aws foY' Merchant Po lice and Detective Agenci es, since they are identical. Combining this tWO categories will end the confusion that sometimes surrounded which ca~egory to place a person in and will make the code more concise.